Word: pounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four outstanding men have added power to this year's team. The Business School's Pete Slusser is straight from the Stanford varsity football squad. Pete Hager, another Business School man, is a 220 pound rugby forward from Princeton. Tony Mitcheley, a third Business student, and Dick Salisbury, of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, are both Britishers, and veterans of English college rugby...
...Indians are pretty well set in rapid right halfbacks, notably diminutive (165 pound) Dick Collins and javelinace A1 Reich. Both are used extensively as pass receivers, and Collins' speed in an open field is a pleasure to watch--from the Dartmouth side of the Stadium...
Those who do not cooperate receive smaller scholarships or none at all, while there are premiums for active students. "As the standard of life is very low, many students depend on these scholarships. When a quarter of a pound of coffee costs about the 15th part of their grant, it makes a difference whether you receives 1 1/2 times the basic amount or not. Only a few see at what costs they actually obtain this...
Sterling was also weakening fast on the world's free markets. In Zurich, pound notes (smuggled into Switzerland by British tourists) were being sold (to people who would have to smuggle them back...
Devaluation had plugged the leak, but sterling's recent fall has once more made such deals profitable, thus put new pressure on the pound. As sterling wobbled, other currencies sensitive to sterling shook also. In Italy, the lira skidded to 688 to the $1, the lowest point since last March...